"S.C. disabled face cut of all services" by Associated Press | March 4, 2010
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Lawmakers are considering cutting all services for nearly 26,000 people with disabilities as South Carolina tries to plug a $560 million budget hole.
Andrew J. Imparato, chief executive of the American Association of People with Disabilities, said he is hearing horror stories about budget cuts around the country, but South Carolina is the most extreme example.
Shutting down everything but federally required residential care is “the most Draconian kind of thing I’ve heard,’’ he said.
Lawmakers say they have little choice.Especially when they have to dole out tax dough to corporations, make interest payments to banks, and maintain their taxpayer-funded lifestyle.
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Also see: The State of Massachusetts is Mentally Ill
Oh, I can't really criticize coming from Massachusetts, can I?
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"Tall Ships tack in face of city's ire; Organizers to charge fees, invite fewer vessels" by Michael Levenson, Globe Staff | April 3, 2009
.... Boston's travails with the tall ships seemed a world away from the placid preparations underway in Charleston, S.C., the other US city where the ships make port.
There, the ships are expected to draw about 100,000 people, and the organizers and city easily agreed that the $50,000 in public safety costs would be paid for by the organizers through private donations and the sale of $15 tickets.
"We have a really great working relationship with the city, and they help in every way they can," said Bradford R. Van Liew, executive director of the South Carolina Maritime Foundation, which organizes the Charleston festival.
--more--"Oh, I am so embarrassed at smug Yankee superiority as well as the endless Sanford sex scandal coverage I never posted.
Seems like the divisive Glob is trying to sow stereotypes about our Southern brethren, doesn't it, readers?
